People who had a dog as a pet in childhood may stay away from hotdogs as adults. This one is vegan, though. Photo: Reuters
New US research has found that the number of pets you have as a child could influence your eating habits in adulthood, with those who grow up around animals more likely to be vegetarian when they are older.
Carried out by researchers at the University at Albany, the study looked at 325 men and women with a mean age of 30 years and asked the participants about the number and types of pets they had as children.
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